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How to switch between applications with one button instead of Super-Tab in a fast way?

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I have been using Linux on and off for more than a decade.The one thing that keeps me from completely turning my back on Windows is an Autohotkey-Script I wrote years ago that allows me to quickly switch between application windows with the press of the Pause Button (I suffer from thumb-related RSI). It essentially simulates pressing Alt-Tab once.

If I want to switch to an arbitrary window different from the last one I can still use Alt-Tab, but for switching between the two most recent windows I can just press Pause.

In GNOME I can set Pause to perform the task of switching between applications, but there is a significant delay, it does not just switch to the next window, making it impossible to quickly switch between two application windows.

And I can no longer use Alt-Tab to switch to an arbitrary window.Is there a way to replicate the functionality of this Autohotkey-line on Linux, enabling me to switch between application windows without delay and still maintains the original functionality of Alt-Tab?

PAUSE::Send, {ALTDOWN}{TAB}{ALTUP}

Preferably a robust way, provided by a Desktop Environment (KDE, GNOME)?

I have looked into https://github.com/autokey/autokey, but I don't know if it will be around in a couple of years, whereas Autohotkey has been in use for 20 years now and probably will not go away any time soon.

Any suggestions are more than welcome. Thank you very much :).


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